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on the right heel, where there are great excres- 

 cences, which have the appearance of large 

 corns, or warts. The increafe of the legs 

 feems to have been fo gradual, that he has not 

 been in the leaft fenfible of it ; nor has he ex- 

 perienced any other inconvenience from the 

 difeafe, except when he has been weakened by 

 ficknefs, and then he feels his legs heavy/' 



ie During the firft fixteen years of his being 

 fubjecT: to the difeafe, the local afFecYions were 

 always evident. Since that time, u c. for: 

 about twenty years paft, but more particularly 

 lately, he has fcarcely been able to determine 

 whether the local fymptoms, or the cold fit 

 came on firft. He fays, that lately he finda 

 the firft local fymptom to be a purple hue on 

 the finger nails, and a great coldnefs in the 

 palms of the hands. His appetite is very good, 

 every funftion of life is uninterrupted, and 

 he has been free from every other difeafe/' 



" Mr. P — , aged twenty-fix, a native of 

 Barbadoes, has been fubjecT:, fince the age of 

 eleven, to the glandular difeafe. It firft at- 

 tacked him with a fwelling of the leg and 

 thigh, which he perceived in the morning on 



